This is a Windows application designed to assist tracker musicians in the creation of chip samples and low resolution sine, square, saw and triangle waveforms that loop flawlessly.Import : DAT, RAW | Export : DAT, RAWAudio demo by Jerry Coox

FlexiMusic Generator[windows]

Commercial

FlexiMusic Generator is a unique tool to generate musical and non-musical sounds. If you want to create unique pieces of music and exciting new sounds never before heard on this planet, then you’ll love the FlexiMusic Generator.

Four Cycle Synth[windows]

Free

Four Cycle Synth generates short chippy, very messy sounding samples, which are more meant to be used as raw sounds, which you filter, and add effects to, than finished synth sounds.Import : no | Export : WAVAudio demo by Jerry Coox

LabChirp[windows]

Free

A program for creating sound effects for games, music, videos – whatever you want! A readme and some example sounds are included to get you started.Import : LCH | Export : LCH, WAVAudio demo by LabChirp

I’ve tried several different 8 bit / chiptune / SID style plugins and I have to say that Dream64 by OdoSynths is one of the nicest ones I’ve tried. Dream64 is a wavetable synthesizer with a built in step sequencer and LFOs. The sound of it is quite great. Very much like old SID sounds.

I tested it out on Ableton Live and EnergyXT and it works great on both. My only gripe with it is the GUI interface is a bit too large in my opinion since the bottom of the plugin doesn’t fit on 1366×768 my screen. Still not much of a problem since I can access most of the controls.

It comes loaded with a ton of great presets. Many great drum sounds, fat basses, and very cool sounding lead patches. Definitely an essential plugin to have.

Stumbled across this awesome 8 bit / chiptune loop pack on freesound.org that was released under the creative commons attribution license. I haven’t gone through all of these yet, but I’ve listened to many of them. There’s all types of cool blips and beeps, rhythmic shots, hits and pulses. Definitely sounds like a useful addition to a loop collection.